Friday, 19 May 2017

Marina’s Treasure Trove by Fliss Goodwin

Hi
there, I’m so excited to finally be able to share with you all the first of my
creations with Donna’s gorgeous new Deep Sea Divas stamps. I was beyond
thrilled to have the chance to work with these versatile stamps, especially
Marina who brings back memories of my childhood and my favourite animation
show, Stingray.

Recipe:

Paint
the MDF upper and base with the green and blue paints, applying in rough
streaks down the surface until it is covered. Rub some paint around the edges
too for a nice finish.

The
next step is to paint the hemming web (this is like Bondaweb) which I did by
placing strips on a piece of foil as the paint seeps through. You may find you need to move it around a
little to make sure it is covered with paint. Leave to dry, and then peel off.

Tear
the painted web up a little and then iron on to the upright section with non
stick paper on top, making sure that you don’t have the steam setting on! Once
you have done this, peel back the paper and sprinkle some sequins on the areas
covered with webbing. Replace the paper and iron again. When you peel off the
paper, the sequins will be stuck to the webbing.

Stamp
Marina – masking off her seahorse - on mixed media paper with the black ink and
colour her with the watercolour pencils and paints. When dry, paint her hair
with the purple glitter glue, adding some to her fishy tail as well. Cut her
out. Next stamp the seahorse and a starfish on scraps of Gelli print with the
black ink and cut them out.

Assemble
the panels by first gluing the upright section into the base. Next add the
netting by putting dots of silicone glue around the bottom of the upright then
wrap the netting round and secure at the back with more glue. Apply a mix of
pearls, beads, gems and glass pebbles to the base with silicone glue.

Glue
Marina to the panel together with a seahorse and starfish then finish off the
creation by adding streaks of glitter glue and some small gems. As you’ll see,
the gems and sequins look a bit like water bubbles and they add some lovely
bling too.

Oh look at all this scrummy texture. The colours used really do give the look of the sea, making us all think of summer and holidays. Fabulous make Fliss, Thank you so much for sharing.. Hugs Tracey xx